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The National tribune., 1887-12-22

es a turkey g0bbler's waffle"
Sure il was the copperas are youl"
{" Yes, ii wuz the copperas. Now, noneo' yer
insinniwations bout it's bcin the whisky I've
drunk, 'kase that Amt true. No man ever gifts
his snoot painted by ez modrit drinkin' ez I've
alters done. Many's the time I've made gallon
jug full last me whole week but then it wuz
the iiuyowine ole stuf'-none O the water an
strychnine that you git nowadays.
Its the same everywhere, though. Every
things weaker an wnsser n afore the war.
Even the gals amt SO purity, an the fellers amt
got no snap into 'em. Folks don't have fun ez
they used 10 when j WIZ q boy. Frinstance,
there Tuz the lashins o. fun we had at Lie
Hathaway's in-fare. done tole We the other
day bout the lively times we had on the way
a-chasn' Zeke Hathaway for a runaway mig
ger2"
Yes"
"Mell. when we got 10 Lilies house we found
there WIZ big layout for a merTymakin'
Lille wuz usually considered to be leetle the
closest young man on the Crick, but he wuz so
gratifed over gittin' SphrOny that he jest
opened has heart and give a spread sich as
hadn't been seen on the Crick for many years.
The house was 80 clean that you mOut we ct
often the floor anywhere, an il wuz light as day
from the great heapso' blazin' pine knots in the
hreplaccs in every room. There wuz enough
roast pig, an chickens, an turkeys, an wheat
biscuits an pies 10 feed a camp-meetin', with a
Mash-biler full o. hot coffee for the women
folks, barrel o. cider for the boys, an llag o.
ole Tye-nOne O. Squire Tulkinhorns mean,
bald faced wheat whsly-for the men.
think Sphrony's face looked brighter than il
had since her weddin', an her nose went high
er into the air. With all their style an pride
they didn't live particularly well at hei fathers.
The Squire wuznt a good puryider, an corn
dodgers an bacon wuZ good deal more fire.
quent than wheat bread an chicken lxin's.
As fur the Hoskinses an Wiggenscs, their eyes
jest bunged out at the prospect TO them a
chance 10 git enough TO eat an drink came
round bout cz seldom as the 29th o. Febyuwa-
ny, and sich thing ez wheat bread wuz never
end
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Ter be that black ter
hacker like this had
The strength O. the
sile into il. Can't find
none o. that kind now.
its all this slimpsy,
weak, yaller leaf, load
ed npwith copperas and
licorice. The blamed
copperas in the ter
hacker I've chawed
since the war has rotted
every tooth in my head,
an made my noses red
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90 be: everything's sort o. runnin' down at the
heel an the worlds ez cold an hard an cruel
an c'rupt ez the heart Of a Bohemian oats
swinller"
What particular green persimmon of wo
has been pickering up your heart-strings
now" j asked
"T.ots on en- assorted stock, too numerous
20 mention. That stOny-hearted ward-boss
who keeps the bar-rOOm down below here S
Jest refoosed me a dram o his strychnine liver
wrocker tell could plank down a dime on the
bar afore poured out When appealed 30 his
gratitood. am reminded him how ia yelled, an
worked, an voted for his candidate an how
one O. the other fellers fellers had keeed me
over by bouncin' 20 pound dornik agin my
intellektooal Uranium, he sneered cold, S2-
degrees belOw-zero snecr an said he stood jest
o. the Government does, IN payin' no arrears
o pensions, an set the bottle O collin varnlsh
q little furder back so eZ 10 make sure II wuZ
out o. my reach When pledged him my
honor that I'd pay him to-morrer he said, with
'nuthcr sheer that had chilbains i'm il, that
when he went into thepawnbroker biz he'd
oalliEl, priges Chat naa sG2l.e mark et-Salue,
but AT present he wuzn't i'm it. An then he
winked at some low down loaiers that wuz
standn' round, an they laughed, ez ef they
iniOyed my miZzery. Lord, how Times IS
changed Cor the wuss. Why, tell you, in the
good old days afore the war, man who'd re-
fuse a gentleman who wuZ sutierin for il
drink o. likker, would be thought wuss n a
heather from the Kannybul Islands. He'd be
forced out o. decent society. Yet this mans
aktooly pcrlitille leader. Say, You haint
spare dime bout yer, TO lend me TO put in the
condensation box at church to-morrer, have
ye?"
"No; only one dime appears TO have escaped
my wife's eagle eye last night, when she was
exploring my clothes for funds 10 buy me
OF tobacco which you have in your hand. Try
il; youth find il extra good"
Nav. faint any good. Terbacker's been
spilled By the war. like everything else. Used
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washed, an wuz quoted by big plates O. vittles
set afore 'em.
We all pitched into the eatahles an drink
ables, and soon everybody wuZ feelin' so COM
Portable that all the onpleasantness wuz for
gotten, an even Bud and Buster got their heads
together 10 fix up a fight between Busters bull
pup an Lies Watch"
81 got out my ole fiddle an begun tunin'
her up. and the fellers shucled their coats TO
carry out the tables an things SOS 10 clear the
shed for dance. Pete Virgins got awful hot
an thirsty-he wuz alters powerful thirsty
an seein a cup o suthin' that looked like cider
standin' on shelfhe grabbed il an swallered
IL at one gulp. Ez il went down he give yell
that wonld've walked the Seven Sleepers.
80 Gosh a. nifty he said, what on airth
wuz i'm that air cupp
What cupP axed Lie, hurryin' up.
"'Why, that one in the corner dresser there:
drunk il for cider, an I'm afeared it's pizen.'
"'Snkey,' called out Lie TO the woman who
cooked an helped round the house, what
wuz in that cup in the corner dresser? Pete
Virgins has drunk il up
go Not drunk il all 2 said Sukey, beginnin' to
tremble.
90 Nes, all Of it,
Why. that's lobelia tea that made to kill
the ticks on my pet lamb said Sukey, cryin.'
lt'll kill him, sure's he's alive
80, Lordy,' groaned Pete Virgins I'm
a-goner. Elder JRggers, will you prayr
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IL TUX all that the
young men am women
o. the tribes could do TO
keep the smaller fry
from pouncin' down on
the whites without
waitin' for any invite
TO begin. i thought /
see a chance for gittin'
even with Buster Wig
gins au' Bud Hoskins
for Dustin up my dog
\ Moreover with gum
powder. j wuz belpin'
git the vitlles onto the
tables fhnfid hpcn got In
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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The News from All Parts of the
World.
ABROAD.

The continued illness of the Crown Prince of
Germany still excites the interest of Europe,
on account of the possible political complica-
tions that might arise should the Prince die be-
fore his father, the Emperor. If he becomes
Emperor, there might be changes made which
would relegate Bismarck TO private life; while,
should he die before Emperor William, his son
would perpetuate Bismarcks power to the end
of that astute mans life. Americans also are
much interested in the daily stories Of Prince
Frederlck's ailment, for it brings wildly be-
fore them the dread anxiety all felt when
Grant was so heroically treading slowly down
the path TO the gates of death, with no hope of
recovery. Last week the condition of the
Prince so much improved, that hopeful writers
believed there might be recovery, but last
Saturday relapse came, and the famous Eng
lish SUI geon, Mackenzie, was summoned hur-
riedly from England half across the Continent
to the dying Princes bedside. There is no
hope of recovery; the end will come before
long, just as surely as itdid to Americas great
est soldier.-The Cars official military pa
per- the Gazette, says of the war cloud in Eu-
rope, that Russia neither desires nor fears war.
She prefers peace, but breads no attack in any
direetion.-Austria seems much perturbed
by the coming danger Of war, and although
-sheiS Committed to the triple alliance of Ger
many, Austria and Italy, seems to dread the
coming contest. If war is ayerted. il will be due
to the wise methods of Prince Bismarck, who
is the real ruler in Europe to-day.-The sit
uation in France is tranquil, though NJ. Sardi-
Carnot the new President, finds his way beset
with difficulty in forming his Cabinet.-The
faqui Indians have broken out in Mexico, and
it is possible that they may seek to escape across
the border into Arizona.-The alleged wounds
received by exPresident Jules Ferry, of France,
turned out to be merely grazing shots, which
should not have kept him in bed an hour ex-
cept for the "shock or scare. A Frenchman
is nothing if not dramatic, but the wounds were
not even as serious as those Of the usual French
duel
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Lekt, Adlu Lilc,
'mount Morgan, an 20
for Doctor Briggs ez
fast ez he kin tote ye.
Don't spare him.
a" I'd sejjest, said
Elder Jaggers, that
ez Pete kin yet ride,
he'd better go long.
lt'll save the time o
bringin' hedoctor here,
an times everything
i'm these things
80 That's So they all
agreed.
PETE, lake my boss,
said Hank Gillem (;
The National tribune., 1887-12-22

The poet Whittier has ballad entitled "The
Brown Dwarf of Rugen " in the forthcoming
january number of 81. Nicholas f. H. Blash-
field furnishes il with several illustrations.
The S0th anniversary Of the poets birth, about
TO be celebrated, lends interest to this the long
est poem he has given to the public in some
wears
The National tribune., 1887-12-22
P0KEBERRY NOSE.
Social Recreation on the Dog
Fennel.

,IME IS not what they
used 20 wuz," murmured
old Pokeberry Nose, in
tones Of deepest dcjec-
ton. He picked up a
plug of black tobacco
which ] had laid on the
desk in readiness for
him, aud fixed his
watcry eyes sternly
upon il, while deep,
stern burrows CORFU
gated his weather-b beat
en- brow.
"Nofhin's like III used
The National tribune., 1887-12-22
AT FRANKLIN.
The 10th Ohio Meeting Hoods Force.

n your valuable paper
of the Oct. 20 j read
with interest the arti-
Gle entitled " Frank
lin," by S. p. Conner,
of Willow Splings, Mo.
He has in part correct
impressions OF that
memorable battle, but
is not fully posted as
TO the troops that par
ticipated in the center.
Whitelaw Reid, in his
second volume, entitled
Ohio in the War"
seems TO give the credit
OF turning seeming de-
feat into glorious vic
tory 10 the 10th Ohio.
He says: In one Of
the enemy's charges a
veteran regiment gave
way in confusion. and
though the l75th had
never been under fire,
and never even on bat
talon drill, they fixed
bayonets, advanced
=
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Benz. F. Balzell, Co. b, 10th Ohio Cav, Van
Vert, o., would like to hear from some of the
boys of his regiment, as he knows where only
two or three of them arc now.
The National tribune., 1887-12-22

Ayers sarsaparila braces up the system !;
purifes aud invigorates. Inyalids need il.
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MIsCEIIANEOUs.

Col. dob" IngersOlI, in an argument before
the New York Court OF Appeals. defined
drink to be something taken with meals to
aid digestion, and beverage" the drinks be-
tween meals. The "court smiled."-
Michigan man who was pardoned out of the
penitentiary 10 years ago, recently applied for
readmissiOn TO his old cell, but was refused ad-
mittance Since his pardon his family has died
off one by until he is all alone and he is now
prowling about Lansing trying to get back into
prison; declaring that if he is not admitted he
will commit some crime that will get him there
"A heavy snow storm passed over Northern
Mexico last Sunday as far TO the southwark as
Durango, over 300 miles from Ell Paso del Norte
Such a storm was never known there before in
modern times-Miss Verona Baldwin, of San
Francisco. last week challenged Editor Hearst
of the San Francisco Examiner, to meet her
with repeating rifles on the Mexican from
tier" Mr.. Hearst did not accept the invita-
ton. He had intimated in his paper that she
is a naughty girl, or words to that effect
Charles Mattison recently organized a scheme
at Grand Rapids, Mich, to give a grand Christ
mas dinner to the newsboys of that city. The
scheme took well and money flowed in, but Mr.
Mattison lit out last Saturday with the collect
ed funds.-Mr. T. V. Powderly, the Grand
Master Workman of the Knights of Labor, was
taken seriously iii last week at his home at
Scranton, Pa, and has since suffered from Sc
rles OF hemorrhages. his condition Is some
what critical.-A Masonic fair in Brooklyn,
which closed last Saturday night, Melted over
100000 (above all expenses), to be applied to
building an asylum for destitute Masons and
their widows aud orphans.-MOnday night at
the Chestnut Street Theater, Philadelphia, the
performance of an opera was stopped by a seri-
Gus fire next door, but all excitement being
quelled by the GOODNESS of the manager the
house was emptied in five minutes without a
single person being injured.-The expiration
of Gen. n. L. Bankss term as u. S. Marshal OF
Eastern Massachusetts, stopped court business
there Monday until Judge Gray, of the Su-
preme Court, as presiding justice of that circuit,
temporarily ireappointed Gen. Banks.-HOn.
Daniel Manning, ex-Secretary of the Treasury,
who was stricken with paralysis in 1886 and
forced to retire from Mr.. Cleveland's Cabinet
had relapse during the past week, and last
Sunday was believed TO be dying. He is now
thought to be out of immediate danger.
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CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

A young woman named Mullen, in Cabell
County, w. Va, saw a negro burglar trying to
get into a window in the house. She fired q
revolver at random, lust TO brighten him."
and killed him. If she had fred ut him he
might have been safe-Young Harrison
Roby, who was accidentally shot in the head
by his brother Oct. II at Pennington, Mo-. is
still living with the bullet in his brain. His
eye was shot out, but he is now able TO take his
meals regularly.-FOuT young fellows at FIRE.
mont, Neb., got themselves up last Saturday in
cowboy costume 10 be photographed, and while
skylarking around on returning, n revolver
went off and one of the party fell dead, shot
through the bran.-Master Johnny Mersell,
n l0-year-old boy. was kidnapped three weeks
ago from Muscatine, Iowa, by tramp. He
was recovered last Saturday at Bloomington,
lll.-George Green, a notorious cattle thief
in Dakota, was found near Gainesville last week
hanging from tree. 1t is supposed to be an
accident, as none of the neighboring ranchmen
seemed 10 know anything about the matter.
Ernest X. Williamson was connected with
his father-in-law's bank six years ago at Fall
River, Mass, and lit out with $4,000. Last
Friday he passed through Chicago, bound East
recently in Chicago and one of his negatives
was of a group Of ranchmen in front Of n store
in Hornersvile, Neb. Williamson was one of
the group, and thus got taken in.-Sylvester
S. Crandell a lawyer at Troy, n. Y, quarreled
with his wife last Monday about money, and
shot and killed her, rs well rs his mother.in-
law and step-daughter, and completed the job
by killing himself.
The National tribune., 1887-12-22

DkHPLEs. blackheads chapped and oily skin prevent
I lNl ed by CUrIcURA INDICATED SOAP
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REUNIONS.
OHIO.

Josiah p Dry. Upper sanduslyy, wants the
addresses Of all the comrades Of the l23d Ohio,
in order 20 complete the regimental roster.
The addresses of James Horick, Co. 4, and John
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-01-27

SPRINGFIELD. Ills. Jan. Elm the labor
convention Wednesday a resolution declar-
ing In favor oil a new trial for the Chicago
anarchists. was voted cut Of order as prohib-
tied by the constitution \ resolution de
nounclng the growing tendency to prevent
the interference Of striking workmen with
the business Of corporations by the use of
militia. and calling upon the legislature to
investigate the proPriety and legality Of the
employment by corporations of armed
guards such as Plnkertons was adopted 4
platform was reported, which demands
the various reforms in the relation
Of employer and employee usually
found in such documents and also demands
compulsory education: free text books at thu
public schools, t. be printed at state print
ing Office. prohibition Of ''lron-clad' con.
tracts between employer and employee; pro.
hibition of gambling; government control Of
railways and telegraphs; abolition of all con-
vict labor contracts on equitable terms
A resolution to indCTse the label of the
Cigarmakers' union brought out an amend.
ment to also indorSe the K Of L. label The
amendment was defeated and the Original
resolution adopted amid storm and feel
ing that it Is the beginning Of conflict be
tween the X Of l.. ami the trades unions
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-01-27
A LONG FELT WANT.
a
THE AMERICAN CITIZENS NEED or
PROTECTION.

He Even Asks Defense of His Rights in
Iexas-River and Harbor BLK. of
l. Opinion of the Interstate Commerce
Act-A Veto Requested Randall's Tar
if decentralization Estimates.
WASHINGTON CITY, Jan q. The senate
Wednesday placed on the calendar a reSolu-
ton reported from the foreign relations COM
mittee sustaining the claim of William Web
ster for indemnity against the British gov
eminent Webster claims to have purchased
lands in New Zealand from the native
chiefs before the British government o6-
tanned sovereignty there, and that govern
ment refuses TO recognize his title Ed
munds dissented from the report. The reso-
luton instTucting the privileges and cleo
tons committee TO investigate the charges
made by three citizens Of Washiny ton county,
Texas, that they were driver. 1t of the
county because they were active Repub-
licans, was vigorously opposed by Coke, who
said congress had nothing TO do with it, and
that the men were ''scallawags' who had
''deluded" the negroes, and as these negroes
had killed an unoffending citizen and been
hung by a mob, these compliments feared
their lives were in danger and left the county
for the county's good Hoar questioned the
assertion that the negroes had killed an I'M
offending citizen, and said the man killed
was ku-klux. which Coke denied. He com
planned that the resolution was an imputa-
ton that the people of the state could not
be trusted. The resolution was adopted by a
party vote-yeas. 81, nays, ri A long de
bot f,. i,fl -, oil Itch
agricultural experimental stations, which
was ended by Hawley offering substitute
for the bill, which went over Beck's rail-
way attorney bill was then taken up and
Berry obtained the floor, but the senate went
into executive session and adjourned the
doors being opened ten minutes thereafter.
The speaker laid before the house an esti-
mate from the treasury of the amount needed
for the execution of the Mexican pensions
act; a, 65S, 104 is asked for pensions, and
S2a7 90 for further clerical help. The Cana
dian retaliation bill was presented and re-
ferred to the foreign affairs committee, with
power to report at any time which gives the
bill the right-of way when reported The
conference report on the army appropriation
was agreed TO, and the house went into com
mittee on the river and harbor bill, and after
long and heated debate substitute, appro-
prioting $500, V0 in lump for rivers and
harbors, to be used under direction of a board
of engineers, was adopted-yeas, t41; nays,
p Then the committee rose and reported
the substitute to the house, and it was re-
jected, on a motion to agree to-yeas, IS;
nays, 176. The original bill was then read
the third time, its engrossment and the pre-
vious question on its passage ordered, and the
house adjourned
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-01-27
ORGANIZED LABOR.
1T THREATENS A DEADLOCK ON THE
ATLANTIC COAST.

Ocean Traffic Beginning to Feel the In
tinence of the knights of Labor-Pros-
pect of 10000 Men Becoming Involved,
and the Whole Coast from New York
to New Orleans-CriticaI Situation.
NEW YORK. Jan. 27.-The struggle of the
striking iongshoremen, that has to a certain
extent become merged into that of the coal
handlers, was transferred to a field of wider
proportions Wednesday when it became
known that the Knights of Labor had de
eided that no coal of any sort should be
handled in the ports of New York by union
men, on the ground that all coal in the har-
Dor now has been put aboard the barges by
non union men Thus the transferring of
coal to transatlantic and coastwise steam
ships can not be undertaken by any union
man, and the supply of local TO consumers in
this city, Brooklyn, and other points around
the harbor of New York can not be replen-
ished by union men. The effect of the car
rying out of tho order of the knights not to
load coal became Immediately apparent all
along the river fronts All the ocean
and coastwise steamship lines with a
few exceptions suddenly found them
selves deserted by the union longshere-
men whenever there was coal to be trans
ferred on the vessels. The exceptions were a
few lines which employ their coal shovelers
by the week The order not to handle coal
also extends TO union men outside of the port
of New York. Even as far as New Orleans
it is said that the union longshoremen and
others are under obligation not to load vessels
with coal. With the success of the coal
handlers the long shoremen. it is stated, could
easily force the transatlantic and coastwise
steamship lines TO refuse to handle Old Do
minion freight. The question of ordering a
general strike of the longshoremen is being
considered by the executive board of the
Ocean association Of the. Longshoremen' s
union and it is thought to be among the
probabilities that not les than 2J,00o men
will be idle before long.
The stoppage will affect all the steamship
lines which are dependent on them for or
binary supplies. The union of the coal
shovelers has as members all men who nm
load canal-boats or barges of coal The long
shoremen handle coal for the steamship lines
the same as regular merchandise The two
unions are affiliated. The loagshoremen will
not manure coal Tor any steamship line TAX
ing freight from the Old Dominion Three
ships of the Wilson line are tied I'D because
the company accepted Old Dominion freight.
The Galha arrived Wednesday morning The
men were ordered not to bagin work because
Old Dominion freight was received. The
Devonia, of the Anchor line, is in the same
fix The officials of the Old Dominion say
they have all the men they need. Over iOi
men were unloading the steamer Algiers.
Police Superintendent Murray has issued
an order ordering all the reserves out. He
considers the situation as threatening and
says he will not he caught mapping By thi:
order !, 100 men can be concentrated at any
point in the city at an hours notice
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-01-27

THE bill passed by the senate, granting
pensions of g. 600 year TO the widows OF
Generals Logan and Blair, met with op-
position in the pension committee of the
house. The majority of the committee
are reluctant to continue the policy of
granting high pensions to the widows of
officers who did not die from injuries in
Cured in the service. The only proceed
ence for such bills are IN the cases of
widows and families of Admiral Farrsgut
and Generals Hancock, Thomas and
Grant. The majority OF the committee
think it would be inadvisable to follow
these precedents in view of the fact that
there ere nov about one hundred surviv-
ing widows of officers who would then
be entitled to pensions who are now eN.
cludei by the general law
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-01-27

TRENTON, n, j., Jan 21-The state senate
has not yet organized but the Democrats Of
the legislature, in spite of the fact that ne
one competent to give an opinion has SO far
conced the legality OF the procedure, are
NEE ting every day in alleged joint conven-
ton aad voting for senator. Governor Alb
bett is the caucus nominee, and the Demo
cratic senators and Representatives, to the
number of 80, met Wednesday and took a
vote, Albeit receiving IS Of the 80 present
1t takes fl votes to make a quorum in the
joint convention and the Republicans and
two Observation-Disclosures Baird and Senator
Chattle-refuse to go into the convention.
There are also doubts expressed that the
United States senate would consider the cleo
ton valid-without organization in the sem
ate-even if Baird and Chattle should &c
into the joint convention Lively times are
looked for next week, bu: nothing interest
inc viii probably occur until then.